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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MILITARY Matches Found: 235 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1917 - THE WAR CLASS, by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Down the long white road beneath the / moon Last Line: One great humanity? Subject(s): Guns; Military Education; Soldiers; War; Youth; Military Schools A FINE SUMMER MORNING, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a full cousin, called arthur macnide Last Line: "so I bid you a very good morning." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Army Life; Militarism; Military Recruitment; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics A HERO OF SAN JUAN HILL, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the sick and wounded ones Last Line: Equality shall sit enthroned. Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Spanish-american War (1898) A POEM FOR BLACK RELOCATION CENTERS, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flukum couldn't stand the strain. Flukum Last Line: The enemy far away on the other side of the sea Subject(s): African Americans – Military; Negroes; American Blacks A PURPLE HEART BADGE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: A soldier's emblem lost for many a year Last Line: Who earned this military badge of fame? Subject(s): Hero And Leander; Honor; Military; Soldiers; Victory AFTER COURT MARTIAL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is not my mind, therefore Last Line: Not I the king of babylon. Subject(s): Babylon; Military Justice; World War I; Courts Martial; First World War AFTER LOOS; NOUEX LES MINES, MICHELMAS EVE, 1915, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it only yesterday Last Line: Was it only yesterday? Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Military; Soldiers; Dead, The AG LEVY, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two troops from the ag levy section Subject(s): Military Police; Names AIR: 'CAPTAIN JINKS', by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm captain hans of the submarines Last Line: I'm in the german navy! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Sailing & Sailors; Submarines; Seamen; Sails; Submarine Warfare; U-boats AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the living bronze saint gaudens made Last Line: Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; War; Declaration Day; America AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with slow, funereal sound Last Line: To him, to him, the dead that shall not die! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Declaration Day ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780], by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the fear of death Last Line: By a soldier's death! Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; History; Military Justice; Presidents, United States; Soldiers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Historians; Courts Martial APOTHEOSIS OF MASTER SERGEANT DOE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear master sergeant to the fold Last Line: A blood-red streamer %in monrovian skies, a lamppost and-theswinging %redeemer Subject(s): Admiration; Human Rights; Leadership; Military; Patriotism; Survival ARMISTICE DAY; A PHANTASY, by JOHN J. WILLOUGHBY Poem Text First Line: The half-light of a raw november day Last Line: Shall echo, with a mighty voice ... Dismiss! Subject(s): Death; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ARMISTICE PARADE, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Down the street the khaki-clad are marching with a band Last Line: Back she creeps to read again. ... Worn letters with french stamps. Subject(s): Army Life; Flags; Marching & Marches; Military; Parades; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics ARMISTICE, 1928, by KENNETH GROESBECK Poem Text First Line: There are not even mounds, any more, where they lie Last Line: And ours the retribution, deserved of our defeat. Subject(s): Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans; Veterans Day ARMY, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Poem Source First Line: This weighty machine Last Line: One two, one two Subject(s): Tanks (military Science) AT HALF-MAST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Fly the flag at half-mast Last Line: Till the day breaks again. Subject(s): Death; Flags - United States; Military; Social Protest; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; American Flag AT THE READY, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the aerial squadron, / wheat fields are ready Last Line: Repeating instructions to the already dead. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Missions & Missionaries; War BEAUMONT-HAMEL; CAPTURED, NOVEMBER 16, 1916, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead men at beaumont Last Line: Forward evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Death; Military; Scotland; Soldiers; Dead, The BEIRUT TANK, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Staring up into the tank's belly lit Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Tanks (military Science) BIGLOW PAPERS: LETTER ... TO JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mister eddyter, our hosea wuz down Last Line: Ef there's thousands o' my mind Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) BRADY'S MICHIGAN SHARPSHOOTERS INSPECT THE AMBROTYPE OF SERGEANT RICE, by MICHAEL A. SCHAFFNER Poem Source First Line: We know it was '62 because sergeant rice Last Line: A closer look at this, my other life Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History BRITISH VOLUNTEERS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the call of the bugle, and the roll of the drum Last Line: True hearts and true rifles she trusts not in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Soldiers; English BURY THEM, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bury the dragon's teeth! Last Line: Fighting against great god. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Fort Wagner, Battle Of (1863); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History BY THE LITTLE BIG-HORN, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to their death in the valley of silence Last Line: The eight nameless horsemen who never shall die. Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Honor; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Loyalty; Military Service, Compulsory; Monuments; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service CADET GREY: CANTO 1, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Act first, scene first. A study. Of a kind Last Line: The train moved off, and here the first act ended, Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): United States - Military Academy CADET GREY: CANTO 2, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where west point crouches, and with lifted shield Last Line: That is best? Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): United States - Military Academy CADET GREY: CANTO 3, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the sun sinks through leagues of arid sky Last Line: Now meant stout mistress bloggs of blank blank square. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): United States - Military Academy CAMP ECHOES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rally round the flag, boys! Give it to / the breeze!' Last Line: Then wrap the flag about us in the bed where last we lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Camp-meetings; Flags; Military Recruitment; Patriotism; Soldiers; War CASUALTIES: 14. JULY WAKE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the streets the jungle-geared jeeps roar Last Line: Of leopards amok from the forest Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Fear; Military; Protest, Social; Terror CASUALTIES: 28. NIGHT SONG, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night for me is filled with faces Last Line: Into the forests of night Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Military; Revolutions; Soldiers; War CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 3, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day. For one day walls Last Line: After it's passed, the void behind sound %not even fear can inhabit Subject(s): Eye Patches; Military; Surgery COLONEL, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray Last Line: Some of the ears on the floor were pressed to the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Men; Military; War COLONEL MIDDLETON, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: At west point I was near the top of my class Last Line: Where sandbags and footlockers %line the four walls %and my .38 caliber lies %loaded in my bed Subject(s): U.s. - Military Academy; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, KENNESAW MOUNTAIN, JULY, 1864, by PETER SCHMITT Poem Source First Line: In my field glasses the little steeple Last Line: Will congregate, in dark suits, buttons shining Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History CONFESSION TO J. EDGAR HOOVER, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hiding in the church of an abandoned stone Last Line: I did not know what I was doing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): African Americans - Military CONFESSION TO J. EDGAR HOOVER, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hiding in the church of an abandoned stone Last Line: I did not know what I was doing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): African Americans - Military CONJECTURAL POEM, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor francisco laprida, set upon and killed the Last Line: And across my throat the intimate knife Subject(s): Assassination; Independence; Military Service, Compulsory; Poetry And Poets; Revolutions COULD THEY BUT KNOW (NOVEMBER, 1918), by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Could they but know -- the countless heroes dead Last Line: And vision give our holy dead to-day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; First World War CRY TO BATTLE, by JONATHAN MITCHELL SEWALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye see mankind the same in every age Last Line: But the whole boundless continent is %yours! Subject(s): American Revolution; Heroism; Military Service, Compulsory; Tyranny And Tyrants; U.s. - History DANNY DEEVER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What are the bugles blowin' for?' said files-on-parade Last Line: After hangin' danny deever in the mornin'. Variant Title(s): Files-on-parade Subject(s): Army Life; Bugles; Capital Punishment; Military Justice; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial DEBRIDEMENT, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black men are oaks cut down. Last Line: Carried out our assignment / with procision Subject(s): African Americans - Military DESERTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As I was awalking along the highway Last Line: For he will make a soldier for his queen and country Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;cruelty;desertion, Military;soldiers; DESERTION, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone Last Line: Gay down the way, and on alo Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Soldiers' Writings DIXIE, by ALBERT PIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Southrons, hear your country call you! Last Line: And conquer peace for dixie! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy DRAFT AGE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You probably thought you were going to go through life Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service DRILL AT NATHANYA, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: As strange as it would be to encounter a five-legged zebra Last Line: Thick and black against the ash-gray heavens Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Military DUNKIRK, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Will came back from school that day Last Line: There at his side sat francis drake, %and held him true and steered him home Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; England; Retreats (military); World War Ii DUNKIRK, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So long as light shall shine upon a world Last Line: Attending causes ultimately won - %thermopylae, corunna or verdun Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Dunkirk, France; Retreats (military); World War Ii ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Canteen Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers; English Civil War ENGLISH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their army barracks were fun in the jungle Last Line: With its thin rays on the windowpane Variant Title(s): Lunch At The Army Cantee Subject(s): English Language; Generals; Great Britain - Civil War; Military; Soldiers EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: BOMBER IN LONDON, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On land and sea I strove with anxious care Last Line: To escape conscription. It was in the air! Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War EZLN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Note this / a range of which Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Freedom; Human Rights; Labor Unions; Mexico; Military; Poverty; Strikes; Liberty; Labor Disputes; Lockouts EZLN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Note this %a range of which Last Line: Terra-cotta idols %smashed to the ground Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Freedom; Human Rights; Labor Unions; Mexico; Military; Poverty; Strikes FIRSTLY INCLINED TO TAKE WHAT IT IS TOLD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thee sacrosanct, - thee sweet, thee crystalline Last Line: I had been brightly ready to believe Subject(s): African Americans - Military FOR FREEDOM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god! 'tis the war-cry! They call us; we come; Last Line: O comrades, strike boldly! Our triumph is nigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Serfs FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Last Line: A savage servility %slides by on grease Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 5 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; U.s. - History FRA MOREALE: BATTLE-SONG, by S. B. R. Poem Text First Line: With a hearty laugh Last Line: When in death you are coldly lying! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Military; Oaths; Wine FREEMAN FIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a cool evening Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives FREEMAN FIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a cool evening Last Line: To smoke, watching %the german pow's pump gas, %wash windshields %and laugh %at the motorpool %acros Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life FUROR BELLICUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cobray m-11 and the tec-9 along with their relatives and clones Subject(s): Cold War; Crime & Criminals; Military; Prisons & Prisoners FUROR BELLICUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cobray m-11 and the tec-9 along with their relatives and clones Last Line: Transmute furor bellicus to %mere flame or tear Subject(s): Cold War; Crime And Criminals; Military; Prisons And Prisoners GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We knew how to order. Just the dash Last Line: To holler down the lions in this air Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We knew how to order. Just the dash Last Line: To holler down the lions in this air Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: 'GOD WORKS IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY', by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But often now the youthful eye cuts down its Last Line: Or we assume a sovereignty ourselves Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: FIRSTLY INCLINED TO TAKE WHAT IT IS TOLD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thee sacrosanct, - thee sweet, thee crystalline Last Line: With billowing heartiness no whit withheld Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: LOOKING, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have no word for soldiers to enjoy Last Line: Nor the heaviest haul your little boy from harm Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: LOVE NOTE: 1. SURELY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely you stay my certain own, you say Last Line: And I doubt all. You. Or a violet Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: LOVE NOTE: 2. FLAGS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, it is dear defiance now to carry Last Line: Or like the tender struggle of a fan Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: MENTORS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I am rightful fellow of their band Last Line: Light for the midnight that is mine and theirs Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: PIANO AFTER WAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers Variant Title(s): Piano After War Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Musical Instruments; Pianos GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: PIANO AFTER WAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers Last Line: And stone will shove the softness from my face Variant Title(s): Piano After Wa Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Musical Instruments; Pianos GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: STILL DO I KEEP MY LOOK, MY IDENTITY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each body has its art, its precious prescribed Last Line: It showed at baseball. What it showed in school Variant Title(s): Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identit Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: THE PROGRESS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And still we wear our uniforms, follow Last Line: Of iron feet again. And again wild Variant Title(s): Gay Chaps At The Bar; The Progres Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: THE WHITE TROOPS HAD THEIR ORDERS ..., by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had supposed their formula was fixed Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: THE WHITE TROOPS HAD THEIR ORDERS ..., by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had supposed their formula was fixed Last Line: And there was nothing startling in the weather Subject(s): African Americans - Military GOD WORKS IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY', by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But often now the youthful eye cuts down its Last Line: Or we assume a sovereignty ourselves Subject(s): African Americans - Military HANDS, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: The one-handed county agent, forgiven (as they said Last Line: Anger in the intervening poplars Subject(s): Enemies; Military Recruitment; Patriotism; Soldiers; War HEAD BOWED, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn is coming Last Line: As if sending messages to a planet eons away Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Military; Soldiers; War HELL A LA MODE, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zero hour! / advance! Last Line: The silence of wreckage and ruin and death! Subject(s): Death; Hell; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The HONOURABLE DISCHARGE, by ELAINE BANDER Poem Source First Line: Most of all I missed the uniform Last Line: To meet the train that brought my husband home Subject(s): Love - Marital; Military; Soldiers; Women And War; World War Ii IN ARLINGTON, by EDNA MEAD Poem Text First Line: Does he lie gladly in the earth of home Last Line: Of honor and its wearer yesterday. Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM: PRIVATE D. SUTHERLAND, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you were david's father Last Line: But I was your officer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Fathers & Sons; Leadership; Military; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The IN THE TRENCHES, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that we are weary Last Line: And crush the spring leaf with your armies! Subject(s): Military; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War INVOCATION, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, my lute, I would turn from your / militant measures Last Line: Stabbing and healing. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Military; War IT IS MY DUTY (1), by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: And it is my duty to say yesterday Last Line: That is our rate of salt %that is our agreement of chrome and autumn Subject(s): Duty; Military; Presidents, United States; World War I - Naval Actions KILLED IN ACTION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father lived his three-score years, my son Last Line: Who shall declare which gift conveyed the greater heritage? Subject(s): Death; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The KOSCIUSKO (ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS AID TO AMERICA), by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: West point has many monuments of note Last Line: And in the land of william tell ... Met death. Subject(s): Kosciuszko, Thaddeus (1746-1817); United States - Military Academy LAY OF THE STAFF COLLEGE STUDENT; VERSES FROM SANDHURST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm now only a student Last Line: I needs must get my decimal %or else I'll be flung out Subject(s): Military Education LET THERE BE NEW FLOWERING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let love be %at the end Subject(s): Love; Military; Victory LIEUTENANT ADOLPHUS W. GREELEY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Genial companion of my army days Last Line: "and win ""the victory of endurance born." Subject(s): Friendship; Greely, Adolphus Washington (1844-1935); Heroism; Military; Heroes; Heroines LINES, by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I love my country you have heard Last Line: And blind to your faults as to mine. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Racism; Spanish-american War (1898); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Aviation & Aviators; Air Warfare; World War Ii; African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78); Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War; Relatives LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78; Relatives LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Last Line: I used his mattress %for the rest of the tour. %it still bothers me, sometimes: %I was sleeping %on Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel "chappie" (1920-78 LOOKING, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have no word for soldiers to enjoy Last Line: Nor the heaviest haul your little boy from harm Subject(s): African Americans - Military LOVE NOTE: 1. SURELY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely you stay my certain own, you say Last Line: And I doubt all. You. Or a violet Subject(s): African Americans - Military LOVE NOTE: 2. FLAGS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, it is dear defiance now to carry Last Line: Or like the tender struggle of a fan Subject(s): African Americans – Military; Forgiveness MEMO: UNDERSTANDING AS I DO....., by MARK SVENVOLD Poem Source First Line: The real trouble, seen in hindsight Last Line: And then, like a sea, %closed behind Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Freedom; Military MENTORS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I am rightful fellow of their band Last Line: Light is the midnight for mine and theirs Subject(s): African Americans - Military MILITARY DRILL, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the clouds float calm and free Last Line: Gouts of blood burn ghastly bright! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Cruelty; Military; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War MILITARY MIND, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to go to military school Last Line: Like a plowblade in her arms Subject(s): Military Education; Military Schools MY DREAMS, MY WORKS, MUST WAIT TILL AFTER HELL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold my honey and I store my bread Subject(s): African Americans - Military MY DREAMS, MY WORKS, MUST WAIT TILL AFTER HELL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold my honey and I store my bread Last Line: To honey and bread old purity could love Subject(s): African Americans - Military MY HERO; TO ROBERT GOULD SHAW, by BENJAMIN GRIFFITH BRAWLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flushed with the hope of high desire Last Line: And galahad to me. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers MY OWN LITTLE CIVIL WAR, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from the only county in tennessee that did not secede Last Line: And half the weight and half-life %of a half-healed and hurting world Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military Service, Compulsory; Soldiers' Writings; U.s. - History MY SON, by ADA TYRRELL Poem Text First Line: Here is his little cambric frock Last Line: My son, and bring him safely back to me! Subject(s): Fear; Military; Mothers & Sons; Reunions; Soldiers; World War I; First World War NEGRO SOLDIERS, by ROSCOE C. JAMISON Poem Text First Line: These truly are the brave Last Line: That those who mock might find a better way! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Soldiers NEGRO SOLDIERS OF AMERICA: WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR, by LUCIAN B. WATKINS Poem Source First Line: We fight-and for democracy Last Line: Peace and its happiness at home! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War I ODE ON THE DEATH OF HAIG'S HORSE: 7, by DOUGLAS GARMAN Poem Text First Line: An army's voice! We have an army yet Last Line: Our loyal passion for our tasteless kings. Subject(s): Haig, Douglas. 1st Earl Haig (1861-1928); Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington Last Line: Obedient to their orders Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c. OTTERBURN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lad who went to flanders Last Line: And never will return. Subject(s): Death; Flanders, Belgium; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The OUR COUNTRY'S CALL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay down the axe; fling by the spade Last Line: And glorious must their triumph be. Subject(s): American Civil War; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History PALMYRA: OCTOBER 18, 1862, by CAROLINE COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Missouri: dark wind in the trees Last Line: Renegade, unrepentant, unforgiving Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Fights; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence PARADOX, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: We are a regiment, whose martial cry Last Line: Your own slain march at our side. Subject(s): Contrariness; Military; Pacifism; Peace; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Peace Movements PASSAGE, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Got up %this morning at 2:45, breakfast at 3:30 Last Line: It must have been a whale! Subject(s): African Americans - Military PEACE AND WAR, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Peace upon the wide-flung country-side Last Line: Wanted—men! Subject(s): Military Recruitment; War PEACE SHALL LIVE, by MAX EHRMANN Poem Text First Line: The guns are still, the dead sleep on Last Line: "your answer, ""peace shall live!" Subject(s): Military; Peace; War PENTAGON EXORCISM, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who represents my body in pentagon? Who spends Subject(s): Military-industrial Complex; Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia PENTAGON EXORCISM, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who represents my body in pentagon? Who spends Last Line: Eraction to signal peking, isolate space-beings! Subject(s): Military-industrial Complex; Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia PORTER, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly / when I hear airplanes overhead Last Line: He looks down. Then he looks at me and grins. / I took it, too! Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Aviation & Aviators; Relatives PORTER, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly %when I hear airplanes overhead Last Line: When I put it down %she handed me a dime %as a tip. %he looks down. %then he looks at me and grins. Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER, MILITANT COMMUNIST, by JORGE TEILLIER Poem Source First Line: On winter afternoons %when a mistaken sun gropes Last Line: In towns that look like pebbles or flushed quail Subject(s): Communism; Heroism; Memory; Military; Revolutions QUITE POSSIBLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The commandant stands shouting 'dress!' Last Line: "our sergeant, opening wide his mouth, / shouts, 'company - fall in!'" Subject(s): Military RAILROAD STATION, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO Poem Source First Line: The troops get off Last Line: Flutters around my cigar Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Military; Soldiers; Veterans; War; War Injuries RANDOLPH FIELD, 1938, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Framed by the open window, a lone stearman Last Line: Before he sideslips into dreams of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Military; Sickness; World War Ii; Youth; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Illness; Second World War READY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded with gallant soldiers Last Line: Who was fitter to die than he! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Seamen; Sails RECRUITING DRIVE, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the willow the willow Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Social Protest; War; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service RECRUITING DRIVE, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under the willow the willow Last Line: And caught in the snare of the bleeding air %the butcher-bird sings, sings, sings Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Social Protest; War RECRUITING SONG, by MICHAEL FOSTER (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: If you can keep your head when all about you Last Line: And — which is more — you're welcome to it, son! Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Military Recruitment RELUCTANT HEROINE, by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF Poem Source First Line: I am now part of history Last Line: To the progress of women Subject(s): Citadel (military Academy); Faulkner, Shannon (b. 1975); Women's Rights REPLANTING THE PEACH ORCHARD, by RONALD E. MCFARLAND Poem Source First Line: The way blood flowed and flesh Last Line: Larry's pockets bulged with lead Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Fights; Military; U.s. - History; Violence; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) RESURRECTION, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not long did we lie on the torn, red field of pain Last Line: Wondering what god would look like when he came. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Military; Rebirth; Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The ROBERT G. SHAW, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When war's red banners trailed along the sky Last Line: In rev'rent love we guard thy memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Military; African Americans - Women; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers ROBERT GOULD SHAW, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why was it that the thunder voice of fate Last Line: Have died, the present teaches, but in vain! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers SAGEBRUSH, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These are the last days of its empire. No flags fly from its dead limbs, nor do Last Line: These stiff limbs? Ants, grass, and wind. What is the price of wisdom here? Only the priest and pris Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Wisdom SAINT JOHN BROKE THE BOW OF ST. FRANCIS, by LARRY EVERS Poem Source First Line: Saint john %the bow of saint francis Last Line: Break %break %break Subject(s): Military; Soldiers SAPPERS, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the waters were dried an' the earth Last Line: With the rank and pay of a sapper! Subject(s): Military Engineering SENDING SPRING NORTH TO GLENN MCKEE IN MAINE, by DORY L. HUDSPETH Poem Source First Line: They say spring marches Last Line: Under a pearl-gray sky Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History SHE SAID ..., by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'not only music; brave men marching' Last Line: "mary, it is the same with me,"" she said." Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War Ii; Second World War SHORT RATIONS, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Toomer porter (my kinsman) Last Line: Would have been pure luxury Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War SILHOUETTES, by EDNA BINTLIFF Poem Text First Line: Stiff cat-tails mirrored in a pool Last Line: Is never known to me. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Brothers; Soldiers; Half-brothers SLEEP-WALKERS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black congo and red amritsar Last Line: Somnambulists who wake in hell? Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Evil; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; War SOLDIERS, APPOMATTOX, by KEVIN MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: They do a fine job at the court house, walking the line Last Line: Permission to drum and dutifully die. Granted. Fall in Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military Service, Compulsory; Soldiers; U.s. - History SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, by MULFORD DOUGHTY Poem Text First Line: Song of a fair may morning Last Line: Only a mile from me. Subject(s): Death; France; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The SONG FOR THE NINETEENTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sky is hung with mist Last Line: Why say 'twas in your nineteenth year. Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Youth; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service SONNET TO NEGRO SOLDIERS, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: They shall go down unto life's borderland Last Line: There breaks this day their dawn of liberty. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Soldiers' Writings SPECIMEN DAYS: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: February 23. - I must not let the great hospital at the patent-office pass Last Line: From there, and it is now vacant again Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals; Medicine; Military Service, Voluntary; Nurses; War Injuries STAR-FIX, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At his cramped desk Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives STAR-FIX, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At his cramped desk Last Line: Going hungry for five or six hours %to give his flight-lunch%to his two little girls Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life STATE OF THE UNION: 5. EASTER 1976, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What came uppermost in their minds Last Line: What came uppermost in their minds? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Generals; Military; Quarrels STORM; PROVINCETOWN, by JENNIFER ROSE Poem Source First Line: Last night's rain fell as thick as gettysburg's volleys Last Line: How the bell and foghorn learn each other's language Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Heroism; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) SWORD AND BUCKLER; OR, SERVING-MAN'S DEFENCE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man that's neither borne to wealth, nor place Last Line: The serving-man to no estate comes short. Subject(s): Civil Service; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Military; Patriotism; Soldiers; Swords TACTICAL, by CLAUDIA KEELAN Poem Source First Line: You wanted me for my noun and then you wanted me general Last Line: A scribe numbering life, refusing objects and names Subject(s): Military; Relationships TANK, by CHARLES EDWARD EATON Poem Source First Line: It rolls into the square as if it came to drink Subject(s): Tanks (military Science) TANKS, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: Co ye to? %crossing the frontier Last Line: Whistles at the screen Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Tanks (military Science) TENNESSEE; A CENTENNIAL POEM, 1897, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-shimmer'd fields of dreaming green Last Line: Love of thee. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Freedom; Military; Soldiers; Tennessee; Confederacy; Liberty THAT DAY, by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: That day Last Line: If you were trying to close them Subject(s): Government; Military; Military Justice; Poland; War THE ANCIENT SACRIFICE, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER Poem Text First Line: Ye dead and gone great armies of the world Last Line: About the blood-stained shrine of bygone wars! Subject(s): Death; History; Legacies; Military; Sacrifices; War; Dead, The; Historians THE ASSAULT, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beating of the guns grows louder Last Line: Cool madness. Subject(s): Army Life; Fights; Military; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain! Come join with me Last Line: And to establish what's right wherever they go. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Great Britain - History; Military; Victory; War; Dead, The; English History THE BLACK REGIMENT, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dark as the clouds of even Last Line: Scorn the black regiment! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; War THE CALL TO ARMS, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN Poem Text First Line: Drums of doom are marching to the battle Last Line: God! Save young laughter from the lust of guns! Subject(s): Death; God; Military; Salvation; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE CAPTURE OF LUCKNOW, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas near the begum kothie the battle began Last Line: "and enjoy yourselves, my heroes, while ye are here." Subject(s): Fights; Heroism; Honor; Military; Missions & Missionaries; War; Heroes; Heroines THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIERS, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where's the winning without chocolate Subject(s): African Americans - Military THE COLONEL, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Men; Military; War THE COLOR SERGEANT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a burning tropic sun Last Line: Yet true, in death, to his duty. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Fights; Prejudice; San Juan Hill, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); Bias; Intolerance THE COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If the muse were mine to tempt it Last Line: Who fought for uncle sam! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History THE COLORED SOLDIERS OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All honor to the colored soldiers Last Line: "they're made of the ""proper stuff." Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Spanish-american War (1898) THE CONQUERORS; THE BLACK TROOPS IN CUBA, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Round the wide earth, from the red field your valour has won Last Line: Not to ply! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Cuba THE CONSCRIPT, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It were disloyalty you say to change Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE COWARD, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, weeping wide atg war, weep with me now Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Cowardice; War THE DESERTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, for the bright promise of our youth! Last Line: Shot for desertion! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Desertion, Military THE FIDDLER OF BERLIN, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, and a black pall over the city Last Line: And broken women, and ghosts. Subject(s): Death; Fiddles; Loss; Military; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Soldiers; Truth; War; Dead, The; Bereavement THE GATEKEEPER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight falls on old quebec Last Line: Gatekeeper of a peace-filled land! Subject(s): Military; Peace; Quebec, Battle Of (1775); Soldiers; War THE GENERAL'S BRIEFING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the infant formula plant Last Line: No salt for tears no sea for sewage -- Subject(s): Apathy; Military-industrial Complex; Popular Culture - United States; War; War - Home Front THE GRAVEYARD AT WEST POINT, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this sweet sabbath morning, let us wander Last Line: Until the end of all! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Soldiers; United States - Military Academy; Graveyards; Dead, The THE HAWAIIAN FLIGHT SQUADRON, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: Aslant the dim pacific's drifting breeze Last Line: By nonchalant knight-errants blithely manned. Subject(s): Airships; Aviation & Aviators; Flight; Hawaii; Military; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Flying THE JEWISH CONSCRIPT; IN RUSSIA, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Text First Line: They have dressed me up in a soldier's dress Last Line: He also died in vain. Subject(s): Jews; Russia - Army-military Life; World War I; Judaism; First World War THE LAST RALLY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midnight, in the rain Last Line: And another laughs with flashing eyes, sitting bolt upright. Subject(s): Military Service, Compulsory; World War I; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service; First World War THE LIGHT-BRINGER, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a time of death and blinded pain Last Line: But forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Courage; Military; War; Valor; Bravery THE NEGATIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dig in the soft earth all Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Capital Punishment; Homecoming; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE OLD MAN WITH THE BROKEN ARM, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At hsin-feng an old man - four-score and eight Last Line: Ask the man with the broken arm in the village of hsin-feng! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Military THE PASSAGE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Got up / this morning at 2:45, breakfast at 3:30 Subject(s): African Americans - Military THE PASSING OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Text First Line: They are bearing him home through the old virginia valley Last Line: Offer a prayer—a tear! Subject(s): Heroism; Honor; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Unknown Soldier; War; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE PHANTOM REVIEW, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER Poem Text First Line: Come phantom feet in the wind tonight and soundless drumbeats roll Last Line: "our pledge, to ease the watch you tread, ""it shall not be again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Honor; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The THE PIED PIPER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge pied piper, in a giant dance Last Line: And the millions perished in a jigging rigadoon. Subject(s): Death; Military; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Pipers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE PROGRESS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And still we wear our uniforms, follow Last Line: Of iron feet again. And again wild Variant Title(s): Gay Chaps At The Bar;the Progress Subject(s): African Americans - Military THE REASON WHY, by GEORGE CLINTON ROWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the eve of battle Last Line: To god the reason why. Subject(s): African Americans - Military THE REASONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sat before a dugout Last Line: "what?" Subject(s): Fights; Military; Patriotism; Soldiers; War THE RETURNED MAN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They thought that he would come / back Last Line: Knowing that they lied! Subject(s): Heroism; Military; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines THE SAMURAI, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Samurai, take thy blade! Last Line: Honor to him who falls! Subject(s): Fights; Military; Victory THE SKEIN OF GRIEVOUS WAR, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Text First Line: War calls and drowns the kind command Last Line: To weave the web of woeful war. Subject(s): Military; War THE SOLDIERS OF THE DUSK, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black men holding up the earth Last Line: Victims of the war god's lust. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War I; First World War THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT, by HEINRICH LEHR Poem Text First Line: A trillion trillion years ago Last Line: And grow into the sons of god. Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Survival; World War I; First World War THE UNIFORM, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the sleeves, I remember their weight, like wet wool Last Line: A wounded eardrum wasn't much in the scheme. Subject(s): Army - United States; Clothing & Dress; Military THE VOLUNTEER, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He leapt to arms unbidden Last Line: This was the man we knew. Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary THE VOLUNTEER (1914-1919), by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreams are passed and gone, old man Last Line: Carry on, old sport, carry on! Subject(s): England; Military Recruitment; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War THE WAR AT HOME, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of our fathers, with bowed heads we come Last Line: Which makes humanity the nations' nation. Subject(s): Humanity; Military Service, Compulsory; Prayer; Veterans Day; War; War - Home Front; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa" Last Line: "it mus' be now de kingdum cumin', / an' de yar ob jubilo" Subject(s): African Americans - Military;american Civil War;u.s. - History;war THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa Last Line: An' de yar ob jubilo. Variant Title(s): Year Of Jubilo;kingdom Coming Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); United States - History THE YOUNG OFFICER, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: A supple speckless figure in costly habilements Last Line: A world-wide exhibition of the tailor's art. Subject(s): Military Police; Youth THIS WILL FLOAT, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: This will float for a long time then be removed Last Line: You eat the colder. %they are the outcasts. %help is coming Subject(s): Heroism; Military; Soldiers; World War I - Naval Actions THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The regiment has waited long Last Line: Who would hold the colonel? Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911); U.s. - History THOROUGHBREDS (AN INCIDENT OF THE FIGHT AROUND ATLANTA), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straight at the breastworks, flanked with / fire Last Line: Will be—the sons of the thoroughbred! Subject(s): American Civil War; Camp-meetings; Fights; Militarism; Soldiers; U.s. - History; U.s. - Military Academy THREE MEN IN A TENT, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My one blood-uncle laughs Last Line: One of us %to four %of them. %I sure missed %my old buddies.%I even missed %ol'corbon Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life THROUGH KIEV, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through kiev, through the streets of the monster Last Line: Don't worry, we'll be back!' Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Human Rights; Kiev, Ukraine; Russia - Army-military Life TO HORACE BUMSTEAD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you been sore discouraged in the fight Last Line: You shall not, no, you shall not, fight alone. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Bumstead, Horace (1841-1919); Human Rights; Justice TO PEACE, by W. W. M. Poem Text First Line: We are the dead Last Line: Make green thy fields for us, and bring us tears and laughter? Subject(s): Death; Military; Peace; Social Protest; War; Women; Dead, The TO THE BLACK AMERICAN TROOPS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I did not recognize you in your prison of sad-colored uniforms Last Line: Oh, the delight of life after winter. I hail you %as messengers of peace Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Negritude (literary Movement) TO THE MEMORY OF WILFRED OWEN, by CHARLES NORMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunset of their youth they strode Last Line: When lads before them paced to pave the ground. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Memory; Military; Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers; Youth; Dead, The TO THE TENTH LEGION, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS, 1862, by RUTH NATALIE CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marching along!-marching to the war Last Line: "for god and their country, they were marching along." Subject(s): American Civil War; Marching & Marches; Military Service, Voluntary; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; United States - History TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. A MILITARY BAND, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With open mouths and eyes intent thy press around the stand Last Line: O eyes no wonder you are intent. Subject(s): Flags; Military Bands TUSKEGEE AIRFIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These men Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives TUSKEGEE AIRFIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These men Last Line: The instructor grinned. %boy, if your ass %is as hard as your head, %you'll go far in this world Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life TYRONE (2), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of the buffalo soldiers Last Line: We turning each other on %in this damn war Subject(s): Military; Soldiers; War VERSES INSCRIBED TO THE OFFICERS OF THE 35TH REGIMENT, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now warmer suns, once more bid nature smile Last Line: Back to our wishing arms a glorious conqueror come Subject(s): French And Indian Wars; Heroism; Louisburg, Nova Scotia; Military; Tyranny And Tyrants; War VICARIOUS ATONEMENT, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an old and very cruel god Last Line: This bitter cup from us. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Military; Mythology; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The VICTOR GALBRAITH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the walls of monterey Last Line: "of victor galbraith!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Galbraith, Victor; Military Justice; Monterey, Mexico; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial VIETNAM #4, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cat said / on the corner Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Vietnamese Conflict. 1961-1975; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry VOICE OF THE UNKNOWN DEAD, by HERBERT STOTESBURY Poem Text First Line: Oh, my people! Do ye wonder Last Line: Be the symbols of his peace. Subject(s): Death; Military; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The VOLUNTEER BOYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hence with the lover who sighs o'er his wine Last Line: But health and success to the volunteer %boys Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers WAR, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night was on the world, and in my sleep Last Line: Men rose and made a second sacrifice. Subject(s): Dreams; Military; War; Nightmares WAR DISPLAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: This is the song of the thousand who are multipled by twelve Last Line: For oh, we are proud that we flaunt this flesh in the markets of dismal death! Subject(s): Death; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Youth; Dead, The; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service WAR!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "war - a dirty, loathesome, servile murder-job" Last Line: Because he made them in his image Subject(s): Death;injustice;military;social Protest;soldiers;war; "dead, The; WE COVERED A FONDER TIME, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source Last Line: A spy is rebuked for a change %and a well-wrought peal and aprayer. %god save the queen Subject(s): Marching And Marches; Military; United States WEST POINT, by LATHAM CORNELL STRONG Poem Source First Line: Twas commencement eve, and the ball-room belle Subject(s): U.s. - Military Academy WEST POINT REMEMBERED, by HENRI COLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such is the way with monumental things Last Line: Cut loose the very detritus of our lives Subject(s): United States - Military Academy WEST POINT REMEMBERED, by HENRI COLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such is the way with monumental things Subject(s): U.s. - Military Academy WHEN DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dey was talkin' in de cabin, dey was talkin' in de hall Last Line: W'en dey 'listed colo'ed sojers an' my 'lias went to wah. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History WHERE THE SMOKE COMES FROM, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mangoes in moscow-and a biplane circling Last Line: And silence all the angels from ardennes, %who sing like wolves, like men: truth... I love much. Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Cavalry; Cossacks; Fights; Revolutions; Russia - Army-military Life; Tyranny And Tyrants; War WIDOW; 2ND NEW JERSEY BRIGADE, LATE AUTUMN, 1862, by LISA RUSS Poem Source First Line: I call still question god-how now forsake me? Last Line: Borrow its blue forever from your cloud-crossed stare? Subject(s): Absence; American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Women And War |
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